An afternoon of stimulating talks, readings and performances focusing on the profound political and economic changes taking place in different parts of the globe and the forms of popular resistance to those changes.

Award-winning poet Mona Arshi read new and recent poems including from her moving and intimate poetry collection, Small Hands. Keynote speeches will be given by playwright and commentator David Edgar and essayist and novelist Pankaj Mishra, followed by an open discussion chaired by Gilane Tawadros, the Vice-Chair of Stuart Hall Foundation.

The First Stuart Hall Public Conversation 3rd Feb 2018

Inspired by the life and work of Professor Stuart Hall, the Stuart Hall Foundation is committed to public education, addressing urgent questions of race and inequality in culture and society through talks and events, and building a network of SHF scholars and artists in residence.

Bob Marley once said: "True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it's dark around you. 